“It also increase her chances of diabetes and high blood pressure- maybe even death.”
It also SUBSTANTIALLY increased the risk of her infant’s death. Here’s a study that studied maternal age and infant mortality finding “those born to mothers 40-49 years of age were at a much more elevated (69% higher) risk.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3393358
This was the highest age category examined since the number of women delivering babies after age 50 is (appropriately) vanishingly small.
So this was a pretty poor decision all around and the daughter’s lucky she dodged a bullet. Wonder how she would have felt if her mom or the baby had died? It’s hard to believe she would have concluded “Well, it was a difficult decision, but I’d make it again.”
I can’t imagine a 60-something woman’s body producing enough hormone to sustain a pregnancy. That means she must have been popping tons of exogenous hormones. WTH are these people thinking? Ooops.....my bad - they WEREN’T thinking.
They may not be out of the woods just yet.IIRC the incidence of Autism dramatically increases with the Mother’s age.Though with this being IVF and not her eggs that may not be valid in this case?